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In a brief interview Monday in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, the former Massachusetts senator said he was still seriously weighing whether to run in New Hampshire against Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and would “probably” make a decision before the June filing deadline. But Democratic TV ads blistering him on the airwaves — clearly intended to make him think twice about jumping in — are having the opposite effect, he said.

“They keep running these negative ads and crushing my integrity and distorting my votes and the like — almost antagonizing me, challenging me to get in,” Brown told POLITICO. “Had they left me alone, I may feel a bit different. But they didn’t.”

The 54-year-old Republican added: “It’s not discouraging me, that’s for sure. If their intent was to discourage me, that’s definitely not the case.”

The former senator was mum on why he was on Capitol Hill during a snowy day that paralyzed much of Washington.

“Lot of different things,” he said when asked what brought him to the Capitol. He said, in response to a question, that he was not meeting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

For months, Brown has been stoking speculation about a prospective run for the Senate — or even president in 2016. But he has yet to put together a campaign team or organization that suggests he’s laying the groundwork for a run in what would be one of the most expensive races in the country. For most of last week, for instance, Brown and his wife, Gail Huff, were in Taiwan, where the former senator spoke at a security conference before returning to appear on “Fox News Sunday.”

Still, late last year, the couple sold their home in Wrentham, Mass., and moved to New Hampshire — and the former senator has continued to publicly and privately mull over a potential run.

Brown would be an underdog in a race against Shaheen, a 67-year-old former governor, but his candidacy would give the Republicans at least a shot in a state otherwise viewed as a Democratic lock.

For that reason, the Democratic super PAC Senate Majority PAC and other liberal groups are launching a pre-emptive strike against Brown, who won a 2010 special election in Massachusetts but lost a 2012 reelection bid against Democrat Elizabeth Warren. In one ad, the group labeled Brown as in the pocket of Wall Street fat cats, accusing the Republican of “shopping for a Senate seat in New Hampshire.”

“Really?” the narrator asks in the ad. “That’s good for Wall Street and great for Scott Brown. But it doesn’t make sense for New Hampshire.”

Asked on Monday about the charges he’s carpetbagging in New Hampshire, Brown claimed he had “long and strong ties” to the Granite State, saying his family goes back some nine generations there and he’s paid taxes in the state for about two decades.

“I don’t worry about that.”

Harrell Kirstein, a spokesperson with the New Hampshire Democratic Party, argued that it’s Shaheen who has been the victim of the air war, pointing to TV ads attacking the senator’s support for Obamacare launched by the Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group co-founded by the billionaire Koch brothers.

“Big Oil has invested big in Scott Brown — hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions, and already they have spent nearly a million dollars on attack ads on his behalf,” Kirstein said. “Granite Staters aren’t interested in publicity stunts — so Scott Brown should keep his shirt on and be prepared to answer tough questions if he’s thinking about running here.”